Literatureיהודה גור-אריה

Yehuda Gur-Arie

Yehuda Gur-Arie is a Hebrew poet, translator and editor who survived the Holocaust.

born 1934Hebrew poetryTranslations from Yiddish, Russian, RomanianLiterary editing at MaarivThe song "Kefel"

Born: 16 February 1934, Lencăuți
Occupation: poet, children's writer, translator, literary editor
Education: Tel Aviv University

Yehuda Gur-Arie was born in 1934 in Lencăuți

Yehuda Gur-Arie was born on February 16, 1934, in a small town in Bessarabia, now Moldova. During World War II he was deported as a child to a Romanian concentration camp in Transnistria, where he spent three and a half years.

He immigrated to Israel as a teenager and was a member of Kvutzat Alumot in the Jordan Valley. He graduated from the literature department at Tel Aviv University and lives in Givat Shmuel.

He worked as an editor in the literary section of the newspaper Maariv until he retired in 1992. He also edits manuscripts, books and academic research in Hebrew. He writes poetry, stories and literary notes, and opinion pieces for the Hebrew and Yiddish press.

He translates from Yiddish, Russian and Romanian. He has translated about 35 books and about 120 other works in journals, including texts by Isaac Bashevis Singer, Boris Pasternak and Leo Tolstoy. His poem "Kefel" was set to music by Nahum Heiman and performed by Chava Alberstein.